英语释义

1. the action of receding recession

2. a hidden, secret, or secluded place or part

3. indentation, cleft
a deep recess in the hill

4. alcove
a recess lined with books

5. a suspension of business or procedure often for rest or relaxation
children playing at recess

6. to put into a recess
recessed lighting

7. to make a recess in

8. to interrupt for a recess

9. to take a recess

10. a short period of time during the school day when children can play

11. a usually brief period of time during which regular activity in a court of law or in a government stops

12. a dark, hidden place or part

13. to stop regular activity in a court of law or in a government for a usually short period of time

14. a brief period for relaxation between work periods
The students play ball at recess.

15. a secret or hidden place
The droplets of water came from somewhere high up in the dark recesses of the roof …
— Brian Jacques, Redwall

16. a hollow cut or built into a surface (as a wall)
The room has a recess lined with books.

17. a brief time off from the activity of a court

18. to put into a hollow space
The light fixture was recessed into the ceiling.

19. to interrupt for or take a brief time off

20. an anatomical depression or cleft fossa

21. a temporary adjournment of a trial, hearing, or legislative session

片语

at recess休息，在休息时间

secluded recesses隐蔽的深处

paracolic recesses结肠旁隐窝

in recess休息；暂停

subhepatic recesses[解剖]

pleural recesses[解剖]

subphrenic recesses[解剖]

Outside recesses外凹槽

phrenicohepatic recesses膈肝隐窝

latch recesses门锁凹位

elevator recesses吊卡凹座

英汉例句

• dating from about 7, 370 bc, these polychrome rock paintings cover recesses in the near-vertical walls with imprints of human hands, drawings of guanacos and, from a later period, abstract designs.

  从大约公元前7370年，这些彩色巖石画覆盖在近乎垂直的墻壁凹处，包括人类的手的印痕，栗色羊驼画和后期的抽象设计。

• but in the real world, even in the recesses of space, reaching absolutely zero is impossible -- you can only get very close to it.

  然而在真实世界中，即便在宇宙深处，也不可能达到绝对零度——你只能无限接近绝对零度。

• the result is a fascinating glimpse into the dark recesses of the german psyche.

  研究结果精彩有趣，管窥了德国民族心理的黑暗角落。

• it will happen in the recesses of your mind, where you don’t even know it’s happening.

  这种想法会根植在你的潜意识里，所以你根本不会察觉。

• but in the most secret recesses of her soul the question whether her engagement to boris were really a mere jest or a solemn, binding promise worried her.

  但是在她那隐秘的灵魂深处，她对鲍里斯作出的保证是否是戏言，还是紧要的、具有约束力的诺言，这个问题一直使她觉得难受。

• to neanderthals, the dark, mysterious recesses of a cave may have seemed like a good place to transfer over to the otherworld, some archaeologists have argued.

  一些考古学家认为，对于尼安特尔人来说，黑暗，神秘的藏在深处的洞穴可能就像是能转移到另一个世界的好地方。

• oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.

  通常，拒绝自己的快乐不过是把欲望埋藏在心灵深处。

• after this week, congress recesses until early may, returning just two weeks before treasury hits the debt ceiling.

  这周过后，国会会暂时休会至5月初，在财政部触及债务上限的前两周重新开会。

• but as he looked, he began to be troubled. somewhere, stored away in the recesses of his mind and vaguely remembered, was the impression that there were people who washed their teeth every day.

  可是再一看，又开始着急，在他心里的某个角落不知怎么存有一个模糊的印象：有些人每天要洗牙，那是上层的人，露丝阶级的人。

• a subtly disquieting photograph greets visitors to the website of the northern italian diocese of bozen-brixen. the dark recesses of a sunken passageway end in a flight of steps leading to daylight.

  登陆意大利北部波森-布里克森主教辖区的网站，一张敏感而令人不安的图片便映入眼帘——黑暗、幽深、下陷的过道尽头，是一段台阶，台阶之上，曙光初现。

• i had continually pushed my doubts to the darker recesses of my mind.

  我一直把怀疑深深地隐藏在心中。

• how does a woman of 45, an age at which most ladies banish sleeveless items to the furthest recesses of the wardrobe, maintain triceps that would not look out of place on an olympic athlete?

  到了45岁这个年龄，大多数女性会把无袖衣服「打入冷宫」，但奥巴马夫人是如何练就她那能与奥运会运动员相媲美的三头肌的呢？

• it is also possible to design hulls that include air-trapping recesses a couple of metres deep.

  同样还可以设计一种携带有长度在几米左右的锁气凹槽的船体。

• an unguided ramble into its recesses in bad weather is apt to engender dissatisfaction with its narrow, tortuous, and miry ways.

  天气不好的时候，没有向导带路而独自漫游到谷内幽深之处的人，容易对蜿蜒其间的狭窄的泥泞小道产生不满情绪。

• the basic idea behind the project, which launched into space in june, is to try to find out where water might exist in the darkest recesses of the moon's south pole.

  用于碰撞的卫星6月时发射升空，本项目背后最基本的想法是要找出在月球南极最黑暗隐秘处可能有水的具体地点。

• having those details in the recesses of his brain was helpful as he made quick decisions on flight 1549.

  他将这些细节保留在脑海深处，这帮助了他在1549次航班上做出迅速决策。

• he was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest recesses of his soul, 「never!」

  他心胆俱裂，闭上了眼睛，从他心灵的最深处喊道：「决不！」

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